This hostility is being reflected in the drop at the number of the editors.I agree with the ''automatic-message theory''. None likes automatic messages. In my view, it should be reserved for vandals. Newbies needs a special priority. Something like: ''Hi, thanks for your edition! We hope you become part of our team. If you need anything, just talk to us''. It's not hard to do, is it?
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:45:33 +0000 From: dgerard@gmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment
On 1 November 2011 23:39, Mateus Nobre mateus.nobre@live.co.uk wrote:
If the sources are so important to Wikipedia, this has to be easier to newbies.
The essential problem is that the Wikipedia community is newbie-hostile.
Not actively - mostly - but passively. They view newbies as trouble and work.
Hence all the pushes back against newbies - trying to further restrict page creation and so forth, the problem with citations, defending the impossible markup, open hostility on Special:Newpages ...
So how to make the other side of the newbie experience not suck for the incumbents?
- d.
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